Psalms 78:37-43

³⁷For their heart was not firm toward him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.

³⁸But he was merciful: he forgave the iniquity, and destroyed them not; but many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his fury:

³⁹And he remembered that they were flesh, a breath that passeth away and cometh not again.

⁴⁰How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!

⁴¹And they turned again and tempted God, and grieved the Holy One of Israel.

⁴²They remembered not his hand, the day when he delivered them from the oppressor,

⁴³How he set his signs in Egypt, and his miracles in the field of Zoan;